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Christy at 136

From General Miller’s wiki article:

Miller retired from the Army on July 31, 2006.[7] The Washington Post reports that Miller wanted to retire, in February, forgoing trying for promotion to Lieutenant General, because his reputation had been damaged by alleged links between his policies at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, and at Abu Ghraib, and the abuse of prisoners. The Washington Post reports that Congress delayed his retirement because Senators weren’t confident he told the truth when he testified before them. The Washington Post reports that he was only allowed to retire when he promised, in writing, to appear before congress, and testify truthfully.

He also had a deputy at Guantanamo, a woman who may be a brigadier by now. She seems to have been heavily involved with the Gitmo stuff but largely escaped any fallout. I can not remember her name.

BTW General Sanchez I think just retired on November 1. He too retired without an extra star.

From Wikipedia

Brig. General Janis Karpinski, commanding officer at the prison was demoted to colonel on May 5, 2005, which also effectively ends her chances for future career advancement. In a BBC interview, Janis Karpinski said she is being made a scapegoat, and that the top U.S. commander for Iraq, Gen Ricardo Sanchez, should be asked what he knew about the abuse, as according to her, he said that prisoners are “like dogs”.[30] However, a spokesman for Geoffrey Miller, who commanded the Guantanamo camp and now commands Abu Ghraib, called Karpinski’s allegations “categorically false,” and said no directive to treat detainees “like dogs” was made at either Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib

Here is what I posted as a comment:

This is WAY EPU territory.

I also was born after JFK was gone but I have felt his spirit throughout my life.

My first book report was on PT-109.

Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon soon after I was born. JFK was the man who inspired America to go to the Moon.

JFK died for what he believed. His brother Robert suffered the same fate. As did Martin Luther King and Malcom X.

Men who inspire Americans to do the right thing also inspire fear in those who would hold power at all costs.

Several years ago there was an older gentleman who lived across the street from me. Nice guy. Tall. Played college basketball for the University of Utah. His wife had passed years earlier and he was suffering from a sort of bone cancer. Terminal. I would watch him pull dandilions from his front lawn and wonder: “you only have months or weeks to live and you’re pulling weeds from your lawn?”
I was increduleous about it. I couldn’t get it out of my mind. Habit I suppose.

During one of my visits with him before he died, I noticed a framed print of JFK hanging on his wall. I inquired about the print and he informed me that he bought the print after Kennedy had been elected. He went on to entertain me tales of being a lifelong Democrat, volunteering on many local Dem campaigns, and of the sorrow he and the Nation had when Kennedy was killed. One of his mottos was: “When in doubt, vote Democrat!”

After he passed away his kids came and had a yard sale when they cleared out his house in preparation to sell it. I bought the JFK print for 50 cents, and would have paid much more. It hangs in my office and I always get comments about the cheezy frame with the lime green velvet liner. Vintage. As in when truth, good government, and a clarion call to service in the name of the public good was in fashion.

Vintage.

Let’s bring back JFK’s vision.

Again, thanks Christy.

TRex’ non-friend, Andrew Sullivan, may have given the best line of the campaign, with Paula Zahn on CNN’s Situation Room:

SULLIVAN: I would say what this shows to voters and should tell anybody is that, if you think Katrina was a success, Iraq is now Katrina. Iraq is the foreign policy version of Katrina. And this president cannot handle the reality. And so we have to — this is not an election anymore. It’s an intervention. This man is so in denial. We need to intervene.

ZAHN: So Andrew, do you think the Republicans deserve to lose control over Congress over this one single issue of Iraq.

SULLIVAN: Yes. Someone has to finally be held accountable. I mean, I know these people don’t want to hold anybody accountable, but the secretary of defense is accountable. The president is accountable. John Boehner is wrong. It is not the military generals who are to blame for this. It is the president, the commander-in- chief. He gets the credit if he wins, he takes the blame if he fails. He has failed. And voters must take it into account.

Sullivan and Hitchens on CNN with Zahn

Andrew hit one out of the park ……..

and to mix metaphors : case closed..

Margot @ 92

Please go read
Billmon.

I have been thinking about Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago” quite a bit recently. This is great writing.

He may stretch the analogy a bit far (saying that Hewitt looks like the prosecutor), but the portrait of Halperin groveling for acceptance, despite his family background, is most apt.

i dunno…… those eyes. cold. really cold. hugh looks like he needs a bit of the old discipline. lynn the dominatrix could wield the whip.

(some of the backwash dopes would believe it too!)

For the details, see:
“Kerry’s Failed Joke, Bush’s Sick Humor.”